Of course, this one spectacular achievement was a singular shining light in an otherwise all-too-familiar thicket of lies. The president reacted to the loss of his preferred candidate, Roy Moore (who has supported removing amendments from the constitution and has been accused of improper behavior with young girls), by arguing in a tweet on Wednesday morning that “Roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him!” (What deck? The deck full of womenwith harrowing talesto tell? The deck of people who want to defend the rights of women and the LGBT community, and who don’t look back fondly on slavery?)

But then again, Trump has been acting so unhinged lately that even USA Today, which you probably last saw when they hung it on your door at a Marriott, blew a gasket. Reacting to his tweet on Tuesday implying that Senator Gillibrand offered to trade sex for campaign donations, the outraged editorial board of this typically bland journal offered these ferocious words: “A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library or to shine the shoes of George W. Bush.”

But no shoes or toilet await him, at least not yet—instead, the Trump family and their Gilded Age cohort are getting a great big bag of tax breaks for Christmas. It is almost certain that this heinous legislation will become law before the end of the year, since even those Republicans who dared to offer a squeak of protest—these included “Little Marco,” as Trump used to call Senator Rubio—have by now fallen into line.

But who will the President celebrate this victory with? Not his pal, the former-Apprentice-contestant-turned-political-aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, who left the White House on Tuesday, reportedly escorted out kicking and screaming. Not former campaign chair Paul Manafort, or deputy campaign manager Rick Gates, or foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, all of whom are under indictment for money laundering or lying to the FBI. Not his buddy the flipper Flynn, whom the president said on Friday he would not rule out pardoning. Not his ex-bodyguard Keith Schiller, who flew the coop in September. Not the deliciously foulmouthed Anthony Scaramucci, press secretary for a mere 10 days. Not Secretary of State Rex Tillerson or Attorney General Jeff Sessions, both of whom the president now seems to openly loathe. Not son-in-law Jared, who is lying low and is rumored to be searching for a fancy PR-firm crisis management team to spin the mess he is in.

And it certainly won’t be any employees of the FBI. In a spiral worthy of the madness of King George, the president excoriated the agency on Friday, part of a drumbeat exacerbated by Fox News to vilify Mueller and, it would seem, lay the groundwork for his eventual firing. “It’s a shame what’s happened with the FBI,” the president sputtered, calling the bureau’s conduct “really, really disgraceful.”

But maybe the leader of the free world would rather just hole up and watch TV by himself? Oh wait, he says he doesn’t really do that! In fact, early on Monday, just before New York City experienced an abortive bombing, he tweeted, “Another false story, this time in the Failing @nytimes, that I watch 4-8 hours of television a day - Wrong! Also, I seldom, if ever, watch CNN or MSNBC, both of which I consider Fake News. I never watch Don Lemon, who I once called the “dumbest man on television!” Bad Reporting.”

Despite the fear that gripped his hometown that morning, it was the commander in chief’s only tweet that day.